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Countries with high levels of poverty and chronic malnutrition face constraints in developing the human capital necessary for sustainable growth. High poverty levels, inequality, and chronic malnutrition force governments to invest substantial short-term resources through social security networks and conditional cash transfers. According to the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization, a high malnutrition rate can contribute to a national loss of 4 to 5 per cent in the gross domestic product (GDP). Besides that, Food security carries significant benefits for human health and serves as the basis to achieve sustained economic growth as according to International Food Policy Research Institute. Efforts to promote food security must distinguish between short-term and medium-term measures and between countries with agricultural potential and without such potential. Furthermore, while high international food prices provide appropriate incentives for agricultural development, it would be misguided to expect that they will automatically result in an increase in agricultural output. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The main purpose of this study was to investigate the environmental impact of service sector growth on the tourism performance. The importance of tourism industry and the concept and dimensions of service sectors was reviewed initially and then the environmental impact of service sector in tourism was studied specifically. Upon examining the study, a yearly time series data from the period of 1995 to 2018 of Malaysia were used. Models, methods or analysis such as Descriptive Statistic Analysis, Correlation of Variables, Residual Plot, Normality Plot and regression analysis test. This empirical results proof that this outcome has demonstrated that higher mean will result higher standard deviation and vice versa. On the other hand, Correlation of Variables showed positive relationship between tourism performance and service sector growth level with all the variables. For the regression analysis the value of coefficient determined the positive relationship between those variables to the tourism performance in Malaysia. The results extracted from regression test indicated that tourism growth, all variables at level seems to be stationary a significance of 5%. Lastly, environmental impact of service sector has significant influence on tourism performance in Malaysia. Empirical findings suggest that economic policy reforms are required to channelize environmental of service sector to increase tourism performance. The governments should pull out policies on tourism, service sector and the environmental issues in order to achieve sustainable economic growth and development. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]